Comment 80 for bug 342923

@Gnurou : you can still manually download the older packages from http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/x/

> « I am really close from dropping Ubuntu on this one. »

So am I. I'm not sure if any project "head" at Ubuntu/Canonical is aware of the seriousness of such issues and the point to which it can piss off both old Linux sysadmins and I.T. professionals and Linux newcomers.

Myself I spent enough time in the past convincing non-I.T. friends and relatives and friends of friends to "make the big jump" from M$ to Ubuntu, advocating how easy, mature and polished it was. Well... Just spent half of the week-end on the phone and email trying to fix my friend's machines and explain them why their graphics were now crashing, their screen getting black, their video playback sluggish, their games unusable... And that it may get better someday, or not, who knows...

I consider that the recent series of regressions in Ubuntu are quite close to distribution sabotage and I would almost wonder "who gets paid by Krimo$oft for doing this ?"

Who among the distro validators is irresponsible enough to validate for "distribution release" the breaking of Intel graphics drivers, the absence (incompatibility) of ATI fglrx drivers, and so forth ? A desktop machine without decent and working graphics drivers is unusable, period.

Yes I'm ranting again and I know that some readers of this rant will be extremely displeased, but I think it's time for a loud "Wake up guys! Who do you think are Ubuntu users ? What hardware do you believe they use ? What do you think they expect from a dist-upgrade ? Do you believe every Ubuntu users out there has both the competency and time for digging into forums and bug reports, tweak config files with vi in text mode, install experimental packages that may work then may break, just to fix things that used to work and are expected to continue working after upgrading to a supposedly stable distro release ?"

IMHO, these Xorg drivers problems make the whole Jaunty relase good for the trash can (and kill the work and effort of all the developpers of other parts of the distribution).

...and I still see "Importance : Undecided" on top of this bug report...